I thought this was already known a while ago, a little after Guy Cihi was apparently going to make a cameo as well? Or am I mixing the two memories together? I'm pretty sure mention of Travis or some other cameo was made at some previous point.

have nothing to do with the plot either. Although it looks like the police should be headed for Silent Hill, once the police show up at the Mason house, they never get seen again. The police cars seen heading into town at the end of the film are escorting a prison bus, hinting at Silent Hill Downpour.

have nothing to do with the plot either. Although it looks like the police should be headed for Silent Hill, once the police show up at the Mason house, they never get seen again. The police cars seen heading into town at the end of the film are escorting a prison bus, hinting at Silent Hill Downpour.

The police chase absolutely wouldn't fit into the film if they'd kept up with that plot thread. It's a way to create a sense of urgency for Heather to leave, and they're still chasing after her at the end of the film (as we see them going to Silent Hill). To cut back to them in the middle of her trying to find her father would not only make the pacing worse but also make no sense and I personally think it'd be really, really cheesy.

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have nothing to do with the plot either. Although it looks like the police should be headed for Silent Hill, once the police show up at the Mason house, they never get seen again. The police cars seen heading into town at the end of the film are escorting a prison bus, hinting at Silent Hill Downpour.

The police chase absolutely wouldn't fit into the film if they'd kept up with that plot thread. It's a way to create a sense of urgency for Heather to leave, and they're still chasing after her at the end of the film (as we see them going to Silent Hill). To cut back to them in the middle of her trying to find her father would not only make the pacing worse but also make no sense and I personally think it'd be really, really cheesy.

I actually didn't mean I thought the police chase was needed or would have worked. I was just pointing out that the police just kind of disappear an dI figured they would have at least tried to show up in the town. But I wouldn't have liked if they did. And the police at the end were escorts for the prison bus, not cops intending to look for Heather.

This movie tries to imply there is power to the town unrelated to Alessa and it traps people in a personal hell, attempting to bring it closer to the games universe. But in the movie universe they still go with the town being an abandoned ghost town that's remote and out of the way, a place it's forbidden to go to. See, in the games Silent Hill is a regular populated town, so it makes sense that a trucker or prison transport would pass through there. Why would either be there in this movie? Why is Travis coming from Silent Hill if he hadn't been there in a long time? Why is the prison transport heading to an isolated and abandoned ghost town with a coal mine fire causing ash to fall from the sky or whatever? That would never happen.